Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions, sentence 9
Watching news reports about a death again and again tends to keep the fear fresh rather than calm it.
What happens: watch, tend, keep · To what, where: news reports, fear
This is a sentence of the lesson «Grief has no timetable: houses, anniversaries and big questions» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reports | compound |
| 3 | reports | report | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Watching | obj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 death | det |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reports | nmod |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Watching | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tends | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 again | conj |
| 10 | tends | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Watching | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 keep | mark |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tends | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fear | det |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keep | obj |
| 15 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 keep | xcomp |
| 16 | rather | rather | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 18 calm | cc |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 rather | fixed |
| 18 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fresh | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 calm | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tends | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | news reports | again | about a death | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Theme | |||
| 2 | tend | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the fear | fresh property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:reflection:002-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions.lesson:9.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/2-grief-has-no-timetable-houses-anniversaries-and-big-questions/9/